Adelson Survives Like ‘Cockroach’ as Fortune Dwindles
No one climbed the list of American billionaires faster than Sheldon Adelson And this year no one is falling any more quickly.A year after calling critics of his expansion strategy ... Read more »
Las Vegas Sands Plunges on Default, Bankruptcy Risk
Las Vegas Sands Corp., billionaire Sheldon Adelson’s casino company, fell the most in New York trading since went public after saying it may default on debt and face bankruptcy.The casino ... Read more »
Casino King May Be Market’s Biggest Loser
Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson has lost more than $16.6 billion in the last 7½ months thanks to investments in his own business, Las Vegas Sands Corp. The company owns the ... Read more »
Adelson to partake in capital program
Las Vegas Sands Corp. said Friday that Chairman and Chief Executive Sheldon Adelson and his family plan to take part in a capital raising program with an unnamed investment banking ... Read more »
Adelson pours own money into LVS
Sheldon Adelson poured $475m of his family’s money into Las Vegas Sands, the gaming company of which he is the majority owner, in an attempt to strengthen its liquidity during ... Read more »
Billionaire treats wounded soldiers to Vegas weekend
All too familiar with the gambles of war, Jimmy Kinsey, Kyle Riley and a few dozen fellow soldiers landed in the desert. But for these guys this Memorial Day, the ... Read more »
Las Vegas Sands Falls After Unexpected First-Quarter Loss
Las Vegas Sands Corp., the world’s largest casino company by market value, fell the most in almost seven months in New York trading after posting an unexpected first-quarter loss.The net ... Read more »
U.S. billionaire wins damages from British paper
American casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson won damages in London High Court Wednesday after a newspaper accused him of “cut-throat, ruthless and despicable” business practices.His lawyers said the settlement was one of Britain’s ... Read more »
Miriam Adelson in rare TV interview
She is Miriam Adelson, the wife of Sheldon Adelson. The billionaire couple owns some of the most lavish hotels in the world and on the Las Vegas Strip. watch it here on ABC: http://www.ktnv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7919108
$1.9 Billion Palazzo Opens in Las Vegas
Billionaire Sheldon Adelson flipped the switch “on” for his newest creation, the $1.9 billion Palazzo hotel-casino, with a modest fireworks display and champagne toast in the brisk January air. ... Read more »
Las Vegas Sands’ Adelson Appointed to U.S. Trade Committee
Billionaire casino executive Sheldon Adelson has parlayed his company’s massive investments in China into a four-year presidential advisory position with the U.S. Trade Representative office. The appointment to the ... Read more »
American mogul meets with Israeli politician
The wealthiest Jew in the world met with Shas party chairman and Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor, Eli Yishai, as well as with Yisrael Beiteinu party chairman and Strategic ... Read more »
In parking fight with Wynn, this round goes to Adelson
Sheldon Adelson won his latest bout with rival casino mogul Steve Wynn on Wednesday, a contest in which the billionaire Strip neighbors clashed over the seemingly dull issue of ... Read more »
Billionaire Sheldon Adelson Loses Billions As Las Vegas Sands Shares Plummet on 3Q Loss
Billionaire Sheldon Adelson is worth about $6 billion less than he was a day ago after shares in Las Vegas Sands Corp. plunged following the announcement of a surprise third-quarter ... Read more »
US Tycoon Wants More Las Vegas Strips
American billionaire and gambling tycoon Sheldon Adelson said Wednesday he wanted to set up variations of Las Vegas-style strips around the world, with Asia alone having room for several more ... Read more »
Billionaire opens the largest casino in Asia
American billionaire Sheldon Adelson opened what he says is the world’s largest casino floor, housed in Asia’s largest building Tuesday, adding credence to this coastal Chinese city’s stature among ... Read more »
Las Vegas Sands Chief Says Wynn `Wrong’ to Slow Macau Expansion
Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) — Billionaire Las Vegas Sands Corp. Chairman Sheldon Adelson said his main gaming rival, Steve Wynn, is “wrong” to slow his expansion in Macau, the only Chinese ... Read more »
Adelson in Israel on a mission for charity, influence
American billionaire Sheldon Adelson yesterday pledged $60 million for the Taglit-birthright israel project, which sponsors trips to Israel for Jewish youths who have never visited the country. Adelson and his ... Read more »
US rivals bring Las Vegas battles to Chinese territory
Sheldon Adelson looked like a genius when he recouped the $265m he spent to build the Sands Macao casino within a year of its May 2004 opening. After a crowd ... Read more »
Georgian billionaire Badri Patarkatsishvili also wants to buy Maariv
Mere days before American billionaire Sheldon Adelson is expected to make an offer for Maariv, a surprise competitor has popped up: Badri Patarkatsishvili Tbilisi, a billionaire businessman from Georgia who ... Read more »
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